Brand New Dell LATITUDE PPX Laptop Battery Pack

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This Dell replacement battery pack is a 4400MAH, 14.8V, rechargeable, Lithium Ion battery designed to fit in Dell Latitude PPX laptop. This Hi- Quality battery meets or exceeds original manufacturer specifications for the Dell Latitude PPX battery.The battery pack generally last between 300-500 charge/discharge cycles. All of our laptop batteries are 100% tested for quality assurance. This battery for Dell Latitude PPX includes a one year warranty from the production date. We are capable to arrange fast shipping for all of our products.

 

 

 

Specification:

• Chemistry: Li-ion
• Voltage: 14.80V ( Compatible with 14.4V )
• Capacity: 4400mAh
• Dimension: 138.50x90.00x21.00mm
• Weight: 510.29 g
• Color: Dark Grey
• Stock_ID: ELDE008D
• Condition: Brand New, High Quality, Fast Shipping!
• Compatible with the following OEM part numbers:
• This product also fits these models:

 

Compatible with the following OEM part numbers:

 Dell 1691P , Dell 1K500 , Dell 2M400 , Dell 310-0113 , Dell 312-0009 , Dell 312-0028 , Dell 312-0522 , Dell 312-3250 , Dell 312-3280 , Dell 3149C , Dell 3H352 , Dell 3H625 , Dell 3K120 , Dell 5081P , Dell 5208U , Dell 53977 , Dell 66912 , Dell 6H410 , Dell 75UYF , Dell 77TCJ , Dell 8208U , Dell 851UY , Dell 8M815

 

This product also fits these models:

Dell INSPIRON 2500 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 3700 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 3800 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 4000 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 4100 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 4150 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 8000 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 8100 SERIES , Dell INSPIRON 8200 SERIES , Dell Latitude C , Dell LATITUDE C500 , Dell LATITUDE C510 , Dell LATITUDE C540 , Dell LATITUDE C600 , Dell LATITUDE C610 , Dell LATITUDE C640 , Dell LATITUDE C800 , Dell LATITUDE C810 , Dell LATITUDE C840 , Dell Latitude CP , Dell LATITUDE CP SERIES , Dell LATITUDE CPI , Dell LATITUDE CPI 233ST , Dell LATITUDE CPI 366 , Dell LATITUDE CPI A366XT , Dell LATITUDE CPI D233 , Dell LATITUDE CPI D266XT , Dell Latitude CPi D300 XT , Dell LATITUDE CPI D300XT , Dell Latitude CPiA , Dell Latitude CPIA Series , Dell LATITUDE CPIA300ST , Dell LATITUDE CPIA366ST , Dell LATITUDE CPIA366XT , Dell LATITUDE CPIA400XT , Dell LATITUDE CPIC , Dell Latitude CPiC333GT , Dell LATITUDE CPIC400GT , Dell Latitude CPID , Dell Latitude CPID Series , Dell LATITUDE CPIR , Dell LATITUDE CPIR400GT , Dell LATITUDE CPM , Dell Latitude CPm 166ST , Dell Latitude CPm 233ST , Dell Latitude CPm 233XT , Dell LATITUDE CPM166ST , Dell LATITUDE CPM233ST , Dell LATITUDE CPM233XT , Dell LATITUDE CPT , Dell LATITUDE CPT C333GT , Dell Latitude CPt S500GT , Dell LATITUDE CPTC , Dell LATITUDE CPTS , Dell LATITUDE CPTV , Dell LATITUDE CPTV 466GT , Dell Latitude CPTV466GT , Dell LATITUDE CPX , Dell LATITUDE CPXH , Dell Latitude CPXH 500GT , Dell LATITUDE CPXJ , Dell LATITUDE CPXJ 650GT , Dell Latitude CPXJ650GT , Dell LATITUDE PP01 , Dell LATITUDE PP01L , Dell LATITUDE PP01X , Dell LATITUDE PPL , Dell LATITUDE PPX , Dell Precision M Series , Dell PRECISION M40 , Dell PRECISION M50 , Dell PRECISION WORKSTATION M50

 

Dell Inspiron E1505 Notebook Review

Dell's Inspiron E1505 thin and light notebook offers some strong performance from its processor and hard drive but it is held back by its memory and graphics.

Weighing in at a relatively hefty 6.8 pounds and measuring 1.4 inches thick, the Dell Inspiron E1505 battery sports a roomy full-sized keyboard that makes prolonged typing comfortable. Air vents flank the left and right sides of the chassis for keeping the machine cool during extended use. The large touchpad with built-in horizontal and vertical scroll areas make navigating Web pages a breeze. Beneath the touchpad, embedded in the bezel, are DVD/CD controls that illuminate when pressed.

 

 

 

The Inspiron E1505 reviewed here was configured as follows:

• Intel Core Duo Processor T2500 at 2.0 GHz per core.
• 15.4" Ultrasharp SXGA+ display with TrueLife
• 512MB DDR2 533MHz RAM in dual channel mode
• Integrated Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950
• 100GB 5400RPM SATA Hard Drive
• 8X DVD +/- dual layer recorder
• 53 watt-hour 6-cell battery

The 15.4-inch UltraSharp widescreen display delivered strong colors when watching DVDs, even from a variety of angles. The speakers, which are located on either side of the playback controls, produced surprisingly good sound, even though the bass was a bit weak. This configuration has an 80GB hard drive for storing your digital music collection, along with gobs of photos and videos.

The Dell 6400 battery core duo processor is some of the newest and best technology. If you are like me, you like to do a hundred different things at once. And that is perfect with this processor.

The core duo makes it very easy to do things at the same time. You can run your anti-virus software and check your email at the same time and not worry about things getting slowed down.

The 1.66GHz processor is very fast with today's programs. However, ff you plan on keeping your laptop for a long time you might want to upgrade to a little bit faster like the 1.83 GHz or the 2GHz.

Storage space starts out at a respectable 60GB hard drive. You can beef the size of the drive up to 120GB for $75 or make it a faster 7,200rpm drive for $175, depending on whether you want more space or higher performance.

The optical drive on this portable computer isn't top of the line, just a basic CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive. This drive will burn audio and data and play DVD movies, but it can't handle any DVD media burns. If you want a DVD writer, Dell offers an upgrade to a Dual Layer DVD burner for a reasonable $30 over baseline. This drive can handle CD and DVD burns as well as burns to high capacity DL media that stores up to 8.5GB on a single disk.

These Inspiron E1505 battery portable computers ship with Windows XP Media Center operating system, so they're well suited for handling multimedia files. There's no TV tuner built in, so if you want to use these laptops for watching and recording television, you'll have to add an external tuner. They do offer Dell's MediaDirect software so you can play music CDs or DVD movies without having to boot up the entire operating system.

Dell Home Systems Inspiron E1505 is a laptop powered with Intel Dual Core processor, DDR2 Dual Channel memory and 15.4-inch Ultrasharp SXGA+ widescreen LCD display with TrueLife. The notebook aims to deliver quality entertainment experience beside unbeatable productivity.

Although this is a mid-range computer, an important benefit that the Dell Inspiron 6400 battery offers is the Intel Core Duo dual processor. While I have never been someone who pushes the limits of what his computer can do, I do utilize some applications that are processor-intensive. For example, which is a part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence through the University of California at Berkeley. This means that my computer is processing radio-telescope data from the observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. While this program only uses the unused processor cycles, so it operates seamlessly with whatever else one may be running, a benefit to the Core Duo processor is that the Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop is able to process double the data compared to a computer with just a single processor.

The more RAM your laptop has, the faster programs will run and the greater number of windows you can work in at one time. If your needs are simple and you rarely do more than two things at once on your PC, the relatively modest amount of memory that comes installed in inexpensive laptops will be enough. Today the standard amount of RAM shipped in most PCs is 2GB. If you like to multitask--say, you want to launch a search for a file and start backing up data to a disc while you watch a news video--you need more memory.

The new model weighs 0.4 pound less than its predecessor and contains a raft of upgraded components, including Intel Core Solo or Core Duo processors in speeds up to 2GHz; up to 2GB of swift 533MHz RAM; and a screaming 7,200rpm, 100GB hard drive. In keeping with its multimedia bent, the E1505's 15.4-inch wide-screen display comes in WXGA or WSXGA native resolutions. Like its larger sibling, the E1705, the dell inspiron 1521 battery includes Dell's MediaDirect feature, which plays CDs and DVDs and lets you access photos and other media files stored on your hard drive without booting up Windows first. There's also a full suite of ports and connectors, including FireWire, VGA, S-Video, and four USB 2.0 ports, plus both PC Card and ExpressCard slots.

The Dell E1505 and Dell Inspiron 6400 battery systems are available immediately in the Americas. The $929 starting configuration includes an Intel Core Solo T1300 processor, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, 512 MB DDR2 memory, 40 GB(2) hard drive, six-cell battery, and one-year limited warranty.(7) A similar configuration with a Core Duo T2300 processor starts at $979.

Acer TravelMate 290 Review

The Acer TravelMate 290 series is one of the most handsome, versatile, and long-lasting budget laptops on the market. It comes with Intel Centrino technology and costs as little as AU$2499 for the bare-bones configuration, though we recommend a few upgrades; the price difference to add a DVD burner to the Acer TravelMate 290 battery is pretty good value for a notebook. While the price may say mainstream notebook, many of the features scream thin-and-light laptop. For instance, you can swap media modules in the TravelMate 290 series, which you can't do with most mainstream notebooks. It also achieved extra-long battery life in our Labs' drain tests. Despite a few design letdowns, students and families on tight budgets should give it serious consideration.

Editor's Note: The Acer Travelmate tested here varies ever so slightly from the locally available version; in the US the memory specification drops to 128MB and various hard drive sizes are available.
Although the Acer TravelMate 290 series falls into the mainstream category, the laptop's case measures a trim 3.2cm and weighs 2.8kg (3.2kg with the AC adapter). The chassis is 33.2cm wide by 27.4 inches deep, making room for a 14-inch screen in a purplish-silvery, titanium-alloy lid. The dark-grey, plastic base features a rubber shock absorber directly under the hard drive. The well-designed lid latch opens easily with one hand.

Acer's big keyboard is a letdown. Unlike the mildly U-shaped, hand-friendly keyboards found on other Acer notebooks, the TravelMate 290 battery features a straight one. It operates quietly, but it sags under pressure and gives poor feedback. The important keys are large, as you'd expect for the chassis size, and the touchpad is also spacious and smooth, with two mouse buttons below it. (There's no pointing stick.)

Icons and text appeared nice and big when displayed at the screen's native resolution of 1,024x768, but colours looked a bit washed out, especially reds and yellows. DVD movies surprised us when they made a slightly jerky start, even at two-thirds screen. Speaking of DVD movies, they load easily into the front-loading DVD drive HP Pavilion dv8000 battery. The swappable media bay can also hold a DVD-R/-RW burner, a rare option on a budget notebook. Stereo speakers at the left and right corners of the front edge sound raspy when turned up high, but at a reasonable office volume, they play speech and music clearly.

The TravelMate 290 offers plenty of ports and slots for the average user. It features three USB 2.0 ports, a single Type II PC Card slot, four-pin FireWire, parallel, Ethernet, modem, VGA/video-out, and S-Video-out ports. There's no built-in floppy drive, but you can attach an external floppy via USB.

The notebook ships with either the Windows XP Home or the XP Professional operating system. You also get a healthy mix of additional software, including Norton AntiVirus, Adobe Acrobat Reader, CyberLink PowerDVD XP 4.0, and NTI CD-Maker 6.0.

The Acer TravelMate 290 is the fastest 1.3GHz Pentium M-based system we've tested yet, easily beating its closest competitor. The Intel 82852 GME Extreme Graphics Controller shares system memory, but surprisingly, this architecture did not hurt performance as much as we've seen in the past. Acer configured the TravelMate 290LMi so that its processor would not throttle down too much, giving it a performance edge. When it comes to office and content-creation apps, the dell xps m1730 battery is one of the best mobile performers in its class.

In battery tests, the Acer TravelMate 290LMi lasted more than five hours, placing second to the IBM Thinkpad R40, but still in a very healthy spot. The system owes its great battery life to its power-efficient Pentium M processor and 14.8V, 4,300mAh (64WHr) battery. The IBM ThinkPad R40 came in first place using the same 1.3GHz Pentium M processor as the battery for TravelMate 290 and a less powerful 14.4V, 4,000mAh (58WHr) battery. Acer has once again achieved the elusive balance of great performance and long battery life when running office and content-creation apps.

Dell Inspiron 1520 Battery Won't Charge

My Dell Inspiron 1520 battery will not charge. My AC Adapter is fine and powering the laptop, but the battery, that IS connected (I have taken it out and put it back in) has remained at 0% for the last few days. I recently posted this complaint in another thread, but after reading so many similar complaints, I realized I should make my own. I now understand the warranty for a battery is 1 year, but I have a few very frustrating issues with this:

First, I purchased the 3 year extended warranty assuming all parts would be included- this is, to me, common sense regardless of whether the battery is considered a consumable product or not.

Second, I have had this laptop for only 13 and half months! This feels terrible- a product which I have had a 1 year warranty for (which I assumed was 3 years) has died a month and a half after it would have been freely replaced. I am a poor college student, and this laptop was expensive enough when I bought it!

And last, I have rarely used this Inspiron 1520 battery! I have taken it on only 4-5 car trips, and I can not even recall the last time (minus right now) the battery went to 0%, as I ALWAYS have it plugged in; in fact, I would surmise that if I were to use my battery as much as the average user (certainly more than me) then this battery probably would have died long ago when it was actually under its separate and special warranty! Should I be penalized for rarely using what appears to be a bad product? After all, minus the aforementioned car rides, the only time I've really used the battery is when the charger has accidentally been unplugged! As I responded in the other thread, if a product is going to be considered consumable, perhaps it should do its job more than a handful of times before malfunctioning!

I do hope this is a different problem altogether and not my hp compaq business notebook nc6120 battery, and if so, I apologize, but, after reading many similar situations, the only problem here seems to be with the battery, and this is very frustrating!

Dell XPS M1330 Laptop PC Review

The M1330's distinctive wedge shape looks sharp, as did our test unit's blue-and-silver color scheme (black, white, or crimson are also available). Flip the lid and you'll find a full-size keyboard that's second—just barely—to the dell xps m1330 battery in comfort and feel. The touchpad is on the small side, but we appreciate the dedicated horizontal and vertical scroll areas.

You'll also find a row of capacitive-touch multimedia buttons above the Function keys, including a Media Direct button for accessing your content without booting into Windows and an eject button for the slot-loading DVD burner. We wish there were a Blu-ray drive option, given the M1330's HDMI port. Dell also bundles noise-isolating earbuds and a remote control that slips into the ExpressCard slot.

The Dell XPS M1330 is a 13.3" screen ultraportable from Dell that uses the new Intel Santa Rosa platform, has a dedicated NVidia 8400GM video card, built-in web camera, slot loading DVD drive. Check out Coupon codes available for the Inspiron 1525 battery on our Dell Coupon page.

While a worthwhile vendor of mass-market mainstream laptops and desktops, Dell has never been known as an innovator in consumer product design. In fact, the company's stodgy, boxy products have been blamed for a loss of market share to the bolder design strokes of competitors such as HP and Gateway. That's what makes the new 13-inch XPS M1330 battery such a pleasant surprise. From our first behind-closed-doors peek at it last month, we've been impressed with the emphasis on the user experience in this superthin, high-end laptop, from the slot-loading DVD drive to the touch-sensitive media buttons and HDMI-output jack. At $2,000 and up, it's definitely a premium product, but worth it if head-turning design is as important to you as specs and performance.

The Dell XPS M1330 is an ultraportable performance laptop that's part of the XPS line of notebooks which focus on power and features. The 13.3" screen is LED backlit based which allows for a slimmer profile hp compaq business notebook 6715b battery. Similar to other laptops in this price range, the M1330 is built on Intel's Santa Rosa platform which includes the Core 2 Duo processor, integrated B/G/N wireless, and Bluetooth. A separate video card, the nVidia GeForce 8400M GS, is available as a configuration option as an upgrade over the standard integrated graphics.

So there's my story. All in all, it went relatively smooth. To top things off, I went ahead and bought a new Logitech G7 Wireless mouse. I'm partial to Logitech because the fit is perfect for my right hand. I replaced my previous Logitech with this one. Very nice! Carbon fiber look, comes with a battery charger that runs on USB. Additionally, I bought a Logitech USB port extender dell inspiron 1501 battery. The Dell XPS M1330 comes with two USB ports. One on each side. Since I work in a recliner, I needed them both on the right side, where my end table is. So, with the port extender, I can plug it in on the right side, then plug in my external USB hard drive, the G7 USB connector and a few other toys.

What could be better? The Dell XPS M1330 is incredibly faster than my old 2.6 P4 Inspiron 1150. The display is bright, very nice, and I'm really liking the move from XP to Vista. Plenty of ram to keep photoshop, dreamweaver, ftp, half a dozen browsers, Eudora (email), and other apps open, without even a hint of system drag. Worth every penny

The M1330 retains a dedicated graphics processor, but Dell claims that at just 25mm its machine is the thinnest 13.3in laptop in the world. Well, until the MacBook Air goes on sale - the Apple's machine's thickest part is thinner than the Dell's thinnest...

But these are not directly comparable machines. The first thing that sprang to mind when we clapped eyes on the M1330 was just how similar it is to sony np-f970 battery. With a 13.3in display, wedge-shaped chassis heavily tapered at the front and brushed aluminium palm rests, it could be the Sony's long-lost brother.

In fact, Sony must be pretty miffed, as not only does the XPS share the SZ's good points, it also adds a dash of style and colour. If black doesn't do it for you, Dell also sells the XPS in Crimson Red - however, the additional colours available on other Dell products are strangely absent.

It turns out that, surprise surprise, you pay a premium for a tiny form factor. The MacBook Air is seriously expensive for the guts you get inside, but Apple isn't the only company guilty of charging insane amounts for smaller computers. Just look at the Sony Vaio TZ150N, for example. $2,100 for a 1.06 GHz processor? Are you kidding me? I don't care how small, it's still a rip-off.

The best deal—if you don't mind an extra pound of weight and half-inch of thickness—is the Dell XPS M1330. It bests the MacBook Air in nearly every single category, delivering about 30% more processing power, 50% more memory, over 300% more hard drive space, plus a dedicated graphics card. All of this, for $300 less. But also, two hours less of battery life, thanks to the new smaller and more efficient Core 2 Duo processor in the MacBook Air.

But it's really no surprise that a form factor as striking as the MacBook Air's warrants a premium price. Super-slim and light laptops as a category have yet to come down from the stratosphere, dollar-wise. It's a form factor that SSD just makes loads of sense for, lightening them up and cutting down on dell xps m1530 battery life, but that drives the price up even further for the time being. Chips are still getting smaller and screen technology keeps improving. In a couple of years, these form factors will be reasonably priced with great specs, but until then, prepare to pay a huge chunk more for a bit less power, just so you can brag about having the thinnest computer on the block.

How to Revive a Dead Laptop Battery

1. Put the dead laptop battery in a sealed plastic bag.
2. Put the bagged hp mini 1000 battery in the freezer for about 12 hours.
3. Take the bag out of the freezer, and let the battery warm up to room temperature, drying it occasionally with a towel if it appears damp.
4. Put the battery back into your laptop.
5. Charge the battery as much as possible, then leave the laptop on in order discharge it completely. Repeat this step 3-4 times.
6. Your formerly-dead nikon d80 battery should now be much more usable, if not totally restored.

6-Cell Lithium-Ion Battery for Dell Inspiron 1420 Laptop

This Dell Inspiron 1420 battery available is made from the highest quality cells and parts. We provides reliable, high performance replacement batteries for your Dell laptops. The LD26 is designed to be 100% manufacturer compatible with Dell OEM part# WW116, FT080, FT095, MN151, MN154, NB331, 312-0543, 312-0584, 312-0585, 312-0580 and other Part# below. This precision-engineered battery is designed for using in the Dell Inspiron 1420, Vostro 1400 series laptops.

 

 

Specifications:

• Chemistry: LI-ION
• Voltage: 11.1V
• Capacity: 4400mAh
• Dimension: 209.8*50*20.3mm
• Weight: 317g
• Color: Black
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HP Pavilion dv6000 Series Laptop Battery

You can be sure that you are getting high quality HP Pavilion dv6000 Series Battery for your HP Laptop Battery , because all of our HP Laptop Batteries are precision-engineered and rigorously tested. Please ensure the battery that you are going to buy fits the brand, model and part number of your device.

Replacement HP Pavilion DV6000 battery which lithium 10.8 volts and high capacity of 4400mAh for replacement Laptop Battery,rechargeable battery compatible with HP Pavilion DV2000 DV6000 V3000 V6000V M300.

 

Specifications:

• Chemistry: Li-ion
• Voltage: 10.8V
• Capacity: 4400mAh
• Dimension: 207*51.3*21.4mm
• Weight: 400g
• Color: Black
• Stock_ID: ELCQ029K
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Hewlett Packard Pavilion dv6000 Battery designed specifically for your Hewlett Packard Notebook & Laptop device. Designed with performance and reliability in mind, this superior battery improves run time and battery life while providing protection to the powered device. Enjoy the power that exceeds standard OEM battery today.

- Designed with High Quality Components.
- Light weight.
- 20-30% more capacity than factory OEM batteries.
- ISO 9001 & CE Certified.

Compatible Battery Part Numbers:
HP 17066-001, 411462-141, 411462-421, 411462-442, 411463-141, 411463-251, 411464-141, 417066-001, 417067-001, 432306-001, 432307-001, HSTNN-DB31, HSTNN-DB32, HSTNN-LB31, HSTNN-LB42, HSTNN-IB31, HSTNN-IB32, HSTNN-OB42, HSTNN-Q21C, HSTNN-W20C, EV088AA, EV089AA, EX940AA, EX941A

Compaq Presario V4000 series Laptop PC Reviews

The mid-tier Presario V4000 notebook from HP/Compaq hits a nice sweet spot in terms of both price and performance. Starting out at $749 after rebate, this laptop line offers good speed and a solid list of components without needing too many upgrades.

That starting price gives you a 1.3GHz Intel Celeron M processor and 256MB of DDR memory, so you might want to spend a little to upgrade the power core. You can jump to 512MB of memory for $50 and step up to a 1.5GHz Pentium M processor for $125, both manageable upgrades that will really boost performance.

The large 15.4-inch widescreen display is great for watching DVDs or just making sure you can get all of your application or document on screen at once. If you're doing a lot of graphics work, you may want to opt for the $25 upgrade to a Brightview screen--it's the same size, but gives you sharper contrast and brighter colors. Speaking of graphics, the dell xps m1530 battery relies on an integrated processor which shares video memory with the system, so it's not a great gaming machine.

Below are the notebook's specifications as reviewed:

• Compaq Presario R4125CA
• Processor: 2.2 GHz AMD Athlon 64 Processor 3500+
• Memory: 512MB (2 x 256MB) 333MHz DDR (Max. 2048MB)
• Video: ATI Radeon XPRESS 200M IGP (128MB Dedicated Memory)
• Display: 15.4" WXGA High-Definition BrightView Widescreen Display
• Hard Drive: 100GB (4200 RPM)
• Optical Drive: DVD R/RW and CD-RW Combo Drive with Double Layer Support
• Fax/Modem: High Speed 56k Modem
• Network Card: Integrated 10/100BASE-T Ethernet LAN
• Wireless: 54g 802.11b/g WLAN with SpeedBooster and BroadRange support
• Power: 8 Cell Lithium-Ion Battery
• Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2

Very few low range notebooks are able to flaunt a powerful, crisp, clean screen along with its low price. Toshiba pa3383u-1brs battery are great notebooks to buy for the screen, powered by the TruBrite technology. Besides Toshiba very few can proudly talk about their screen. I have talked about this before, when manufacturers are forced to choose between different qualities and features on their notebooks. This time, Compaq just chose to ignore the significance of a good screen, which they could have improved easily. When watching movies, the screen has lack of brightness which I couldn't adjust. It seemed dull and vapid enough for me not to enjoy the movie completely. The screen was impressive in size though measured at 15.4 in, but screens that large will simply accentuate the dullness. The big screened notebooks must be crisp and clear.

Despite the screen quality, there is nothing lacking in the sound quality. A pair of high quality JBL speakers gave a great effect when playing music. They have a nice three button external adjustment which is convenient after just trying out a notebook that had no external control. The extra problem of opening the Windows control is more annoying than people believe; especially for me as I constantly adjust volume during movies to either boost conversation volume or quite action scenes. There have been speaker problems with almost every notebook Ive reviewed and I began to believe that low price notebooks and good sound couldnt go together. Im relieved that I was wrong.

Our Presario V4000 test system came equipped with the latest mobile components, including a 2.0GHz Pentium M processor, an 80GB hard drive, and 1GB of 333MHz memory--the maximum amount of RAM the V4000 can accommodate. A bonus is the double-layer DVD burner; for a reasonable fee, you can add HP's LightScribe technology to laser-etch labels directly on the disc's surface. While it's a dell inspiron 1501 battery tolerable movie machine, the Presario V4000 lacks the Pavilion dv4000's instant-play features and remote control, and the V4000's stereo speakers sound too soft. Its 15.4-inch wide-screen BrightView display, with a 1,280x800 native resolution, looked slightly washed-out but offered a good amount of screen real estate. With an integrated Intel 915 graphics accelerator that uses up to 128MB of system memory, the Presario V4000 is not suitable for high-end gamer who require dedicated video memory.

As I have stated, I was planning to have this notebook plugged into power for the most part, so battery life was not the biggest concern for me. This package comes with the 8-cell battery, and if mobility is important to you with this laptop, it would be wise to upgrade to a 12 cell COMPAQ PRESARIO V4000 SERIES battery or get a spare. The advertised battery life was 3 hours; however I have found it to be closer to around 2 hours and 15 minutes. However turning options off like wireless, and keeping screen brightness down, could increase this and get it closer to the advertised figure.

As you can probably feel from the review, I'm a big fan of this notebook and am glad I purchased it. I would strongly recommend this to anyone looking for a notebook with lots of features, lots of power, and presario v4000 battery that doesn't bust the bank. This would be great for a student looking for something that can handle office applications but has enough power to handle most popular games.

Dell Inspiron 1501 Review

The Dell Inspiron 1501 is a 15.4" widescreen notebook now available with the AMD Sempron, Turion or Turion X2 processor. The dell inspiron 1501 battery has a subset of the Intel based Inspiron e1505 features and carries the same basic design and build as that popular laptop. Unfortunately, Dell cut features on the Inspiron 1501 but didn't cut its price a whole lot relative to the e1505. Unless you really want an AMD processor, it's hard to recommend this machine over the only slightly more expensive and better e1505.

The Dell Inspiron 1501 is a 15.4" screen notebook available with the AMD Turion, Turion X2 and Sempron processors. Buyers seeking a versatile solution with a larger display for mainstream multimedia and productivity tasks should choose this notebook.

 

In terms of design, the 1501 is identical to the Dell Inspiron E1505 battery. Both measure 14 x 10.4 x 1.4 inches and have speakers integrated into the front bezel, air vents flanking the left and right sides of the chassis, large touchpads with built-in scroll areas (that make for easy Web page navigation), 80GB hard drives, and non-offensive, silver-and-white color schemes. Although the 1501 weighs slightly less (6.4 pounds vs. 6.2 pounds), the lack of dedicated CD/DVD controls is a glaring omission, even in a budget mainstream machine. When we wanted to raise or lower the volume of a DVD or skip chapters, we had to use the software's far less intuitive controls.
 
The 15.4-inch widescreen produced strong colors when playing a DVD, but the viewing angles were tight on our TrueLife anti-glare display. Staying centered in front of the screen is the only way to truly enjoy the visuals, so watching a movie with a friend may be out of the question.

The Inspiron 1501's front side is free of ports. Also on the left side it has only the DVD drive, an Kensington lock and the fan holes.At the backside there are a VGA-out for connecting an external display, a modem and a LAN port, the power connector and 2 USB 2.0 ports. At the right side there are two further USB 2.0 ports, a connector for a headset and a microphone, a 3in1 Cardreader and an ExpressCard slot.

 

At a closer look, one can see that Dell somewhat skimped on ports. E.g  a firewire port or a S-Video out are missing. Furthermore, an optical sound out (S/PDIF) would be sometimes useful. However, the 4 USB 2.0 have to be rated positively as well as the order of the ports.

This computer does not deserve to be called a computer. Ours had to have the fan replaced, the battery replaced, the power supply replaced, DVD runs like a mack truck engine, the extended hp pavilion zd7000 battery we bought did not have an extended life, the computer shuts off randomly, it looses files and the hard drive crashes and has to be reloaded, screen goes black and tiny boxes with multi colored dots appear on the screen, maintenance programming completed and it still does not work correctly. Last time we called for service no one returned our call. I tried 6 times. Then went online to request maintenance....funny thing....never heard from anyone but I did receive a survey to complete describing my experience with the recent maintenance request.....completed it and then nothing. Still stuck with the same worthless computer that is out of warranty. Imagine that. Stay away from this Dell computer.

Decked out in silver, white, and dark gray, the dell 1501 battery won't be mistaken for a business notebook, but its looks are suitably understated for the meeting room. The laptop measures 1.4x14x10.5 inches and weighs 6.2 pounds, straddling the line between travel companion and stay-at-home desktop replacement. It has a sturdy build, too, and feels like it could take a few knocks.

The 15.4-inch WXGA (1,280x800-resolution) display, which uses Dell's contrast-improving TrueLife technology, is definitely a highlight. Text was sharp, and DVDs and Vista's Aero interface looked great. An integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 adapter that shares up to 256MB of system memory powers the graphics. Casual gamers won't be disappointed with this chip.

Cheap Quite tough Good toshiba satellite m30 series battery life Little bloatware Good and fast support Reliable performance (did not crash even once) Good keyboard and touchpad Cold...Weak CPU, no dedicated video card option No FireWire port (you can buy ExpressCard to FireWire adapter) No...The Inspiron 1501 is a low-cost version of the top selling Inspiron 6400/e1505 series to keep budget-minded.

To meet your PC needs, the Dell Inspiron 1501 can be built with a range of AMD processors, including Sempron, TurionTM 64 and TurionTM 64 X2 series chips. The AMD TurionTM 64 X2 offers dual-core technology which can provide substantial improvements over dell xps m1730 battery single-core counterpart.